Historical
[hɪ'stɒrɪk(ə)l] or [hɪ'stɔrɪkl]
Definition
(adj.) having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary; 'the historical Jesus'; 'doubt that a historical Camelot every existed'; 'actual historical events' .
(adj.) of or relating to the study of history; 'historical scholars'; 'a historical perspective' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.
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Examples
- It is really wonderful to think of Rudolph still being alive, mused Mrs Dengelton, taking no notice of the Rector's historical explanation. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Important interviews would be broken off to get in a visit to some old historical mansion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The socialist movement calls him its prophet, and, while many socialists say he is superseded, no one disputes his historical importance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If the Aristotelian conception represented just Aristotle's personal view, it would be a more or less interesting historical curiosity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- While the distinction is often thought to be intrinsic and absolute, it is really historical and social. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- His figures, which usually dealt with historical, mythological, or allegorical subjects, were executed in relief, and colored. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- These markings and fossils in the rocks and the rocks themselves are our first historical documents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Historical knowledge helps provide such insight. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In that antithesis lies the essential historical importance of Napoleon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Each one of these ideas was born of an original need, served its historical function and survived beyond its allotted time. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Burton's Historical Collections_; they were small chapmen's books, and cheap, 40 volumes in all. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It was an age of historical inquiry and learning in Babylonia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His efforts to paint historical pictures rather than portraits, and his share in paying off certain debts of his father’s, had made great inroads on the money he had saved. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- These are the routineers gifted with historical sense. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We have been in a historical section of country all day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Some years later, also, Daft again tried friction gear in his historical experiments on the Manhattan Elevated road, but the results were attended with no greater success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The key to German historical teaching is to be found in Count Moltke's dictum: Perpetual peace is a dream, and it is not even a beautiful dream. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We used to play at guessing historical characters at Mrs. Lemon's, but not anatomists. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Here also are other cabinets containing old papers and records, while further along the wall are piled up boxes of historical models and instruments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events in England for about a hundred years past. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Herbart is the best historical representative of this type of theory. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Near by stood a stunted oak-tree, which was made historical by the event. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- See on this subject the Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John, (a most beautiful volume), by Richard Thomson. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- We may learn this, among other instances, from the order, which is always observed in historical narrations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But it was historical fact, not vital to him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Historical parallels are remarkably efficient in this way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- These general considerations are amply borne out by the historical development of educational philosophy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is a great historical creek with four feet in the channel and some scows floating around. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For a hundred needs of the nation it has no thought, but about the precise morality of an historical transaction eight years old there is a meticulous interest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What were the caus es of this threatened break in the historical continuity of science? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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